@approxinfinity Make sure to bring your bucket, and scoop em up.
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@dylans Copy and paste it. It's behind a pay wall.
All I know is there is an 180 mile long funnel that is turning at 200 mph. Now that is one hell of a wind tunnel, folks.
Interesting stuff. If you like bizarre, welcome to Saturn:
https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/weird-hexagon-saturn-way-bigger-scientists-thought-ncna906541 ↗ ↗
I'm sorry this is happening to you. I had a good friend who battled it for years until two weeks ago. May your family and friends have a better result.
@mayjay My comment was about Kapertrick, not you. I confess I haven't read your post. Nike is a modern day slave trader, and they bought an activist who was up for sale to bring about political change so Nike could avoid paying taxes. If Kapertrick was truly concerned about oppression, brutality, and the worst form of racism, he wouldn't take a plug nickel from Nike. If Nike was truly concerned about racism and police brutality, they wouldn't do almost all their business in a country that has one of the most brutal human rights records in the world. Nike perpetuates this human slavery, and props up this repressive regime. Trump was going to hit Nike with import fees, so now Nike cares about human rights. The sanctimony, and the hypocrisy is deafening.
The real sacrifice are the thousands of Chinese women making .20 an hour, working 80 hours a week in horrible conditions so Nike can pay Kap millions of dollars. The hypocrisy is profound. Just my opinion- you won't change my opinion, and I know I won't change yours.
Thank you, Frank for helping us bridge the gap to bb season. Tear 'em up!
http://www2.kusports.com/weblogs/tale-tait/2018/sep/4/former-jayhawk-frank-mason-iii-to-compet/ ↗ ↗
And then crash the entire world's economy....
http://www.savannahnow.com/news/20180903/global-debt-soars-along-with-fears-of-crisis-ahead ↗ ↗
This is off topic a bit, but have you seen Liberace's new look? That Elite 8 is going to his head...
https://pagesix.com/2018/09/04/bruce-weber-is-the-center-of-attention-in-venice-and-more-star-snaps/slide-1/?_ga=2.245966980.1887157345.1536086075-1205450683.1534096865 ↗ ↗
Is it 25 or 24 now?
It looks a lot like AFH did back when Uncle Ted was coach. You could work your way down to the best seats in the house back then.
@BShark We could've won that game on Saturday. When Nickels gets the ball at our 25 yard line, that's when we should've had one of our students wear the Nickels t-shirt...come running onto the field, and draw a 15 yard penalty. Next play, send another one. Next play, do the same thing. It's like the Poke a Doke strategery, only use our fans to pretend to be Nickels fans to do it. By the time we get them back to their own 10 yard line, then there won't be enough time left to score in OT, and we win. We've got to start thinking outside the box.
@wissox We don't actually storm the field...we scatter it. Drunkest ones go first. It's a new technique pioneered by KU where we take about 75 fans, and all converge to the goalpost, so it looks like it's more people. We have to make due since most people have left at halftime.
The goalposts come down. A conference VICTORY!
It's pretty obvious that both of you are taking this latest loss really hard. I know when you get your hopes up, a defeat can really be discouraging. Sometimes that pain of losing can get misdirected, and you can end up treating a fellow fan like a dirty leg Missourah fan. So, I want to encourage you both to remember the good time. Not the good time(s)...nope. The good time :
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@BShark Like Beaty said, the sun is going to rise tomorrow. What a great perspective from a coach that is 3-34...kind of like the song, "don't worry..be happy":
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We've been bad for generations. We occasionally would pop out a good year - with 1 Orange Bowl win over many, many years. This is institutionalized losing....this is like a life long criminal that repeats the same crimes over and over. Losing football recidivism. We need a T Boone Pickens type to come in and shower the whole thing with some big seed money, fix up the whole program, and lure a real head coach. Beaty is a high school football coach. I picked them to win by 1 point over the Nickels, but I have so many wins in basketball, it doesn't hurt my 82% certified accuracy rating. Like we used to say when football started when I was at KU... " anybody ready for some basketball"???
Ok, one more, and then I'll quit. Let the BB team help us win games. Let's install dedric as QB. He is the best passer on our team, and at 6'9", he will be able to see clearly over the defense. We'll go to the shotgun to avoid injury. The slot wr will KJ, and he'll use his 6'7" frame to shield defenders, and we could throw buttonhooks to him all day long. Our TE and goal line back will be Doke...yeah, try to defend a 7 foot TE. Try and stop a 7 foot 280 lb running back at the goal. He'd make Okeye look like a mighty mite. Grimes and Vick could be our wrs, and we could use Dotson as our h-back. On defense, we could use Vick, Grimes, Dotson, Dedric and KJ as our secondary. Vick can jump a mile. dedric could be our 6'9" safety. Just try and throw against him. Of course, Lightfoot would make an outstanding linebacker because he does enjoy hitting people. Our defensive line would be Doke at nose guard, and Silvio and MacCormick at defensive end- they would bat down passes all day. Of course I haven't forgot about my fav, Charlie. Somebody has to make sure those guys have water. Go get 'em, Charlie! I figure we'd be 9-3 and make the Orange Bowl...
@BShark If Nickels beats us, we might have to see if there is a Penny University we could schedule. Nickels might be too much...
Literal Reader Alert: The above post may not reflect the actual sentiments of the poster, but may actually reflect a bad Jethro joke. We are 3-33 the last 3 years.
This is our game of the year. KU 21 Nickels St 20. The goal posts are COMING DOWN!
In other news:
@Crimsonorblue22 No thanks. 4 hours waiting is insane.
I like him. He would be a reserve, but he'd be entertaining at the end of games his first two years, and probably get some minutes his junior and senior year. Not as a starter, but you bring him in to shoot the 3. It's too bad we couldn't talk him into coming in as a walk on.The smart player will help the athletic player get better.
Step 2: Crash all of the South American economies to create chaos, fear, and massive migration:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/argentina-crisis-peso-crashes-to-record-low-amid-imf-plea.html ↗ ↗
Does Nickels have a team bus, or do the parents have to drop them off???
@BShark LMAO....you got me hooting on that one. That was a good one...lol.
@BShark 1-11. Nickels St is GOING DOWN !!!!
@JayHawkFanToo Geez Louise. It's going to get to the point where no athlete will talk to the press. Get the politics OUT OF SPORTS!
@wrwlumpy GOOD FOR HIM. I Love TROB.
The big question is ...can we shoot the ball from outside and stretch the defense. I think we can. Several people on here have doubts. Bill has doubts :
“And I’ve said hundreds of times already, and I’ll say it some more: We’ve got a lot of nice players — really nice players — but unless we have a couple of guys kind of emerge as knockdown shooters, nice players can be guarded pretty easily.
“We’ve got to find some guys that can consistently stretch it.”
And that's the million dollar question. I like our chances...Vick becomes very important. Charlie gets more run. Grimes has to show his mettle. Dedric and KJ have to shoot better from 3. That's our challenge. I think we're up to it.
@JayHawkFanToo Here Dotson is working over Jahvon Quinerly, and Dotson is definitely taller than Jahvon, who is 6'1". We're going to be just fine at point guard, because Dotson is a BEAST: [
@JayHawkFanToo I probably started that. He looks about 5'11", but everything I've found is saying he's 6'2".
@jayballer73 Here's a nice breakdown on Grime's game:
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@Texas-Hawk-10 Do you see Doke playing more than 24 minutes, or Dedric playing any less than 35? Doke averaging 24 minutes for the year meant for practically the entire season, we had 36 minutes where we got whipped badly on the boards ( Silvio helped a lot, but he wasn't in there for very long). It wouldn't surprise me a bit if Doke out rebounded Lawson, but I could see Lawson coming out on top as well. The point is, we have two REALLY good options going for boards. Now, if you don't want to deem Lawson "elite" as a rebounder after a 9.9 average, that's your preference. I just know it's been a long 6 years without having 2 good rebounders on the floor at the same time.
@jaybate-1.0 I think you've made your mind up. Bill has a way of breaking through ceilings on things like that. Everyone said freshmen couldn't thrive in his system, and then Wigs and JJ both had great years. After Bill made the fools gold comment about 3s, and we were all convinced he would never run a 3 point offense, he constructs one of the best 3 pointing shooting teams in college basketball. So, I understand the conventional thought is you must have an experienced point guard or a Magic Johnson talent frosh to win it all. I might be whistling in the dark- i happen to think this team can win it all, and I laid out my case.
@Texas-Hawk-10 I think you proved my point in the fact you had to go back 6 years to find anyone on our team that had as many boards per game as Lawson. I guess elite is in the eye of the beholder, as TROB averaged 6.4 rpg as a sophomore. Are you trying to compare Trob's junior campaign with Lawson sophomore campaign? I'll grant you that 37 to 38% from Vick is not Svi good, but if he has the proverbial senior bump, we could see 40%+, and that qualifies as eagle eye, in my books. Like I said, it's in the eye of the beholder.
@jaybate-1.0 So you disagree with Bill said about Grimes? You don't have to take my word for it - takes Bill's word. He doesn't have to produce like Magic Johnson. That's a straw man argument, imo.
@jaybate-1.0 The point forward is going to change the way our offense plays. I'm convinced the ball runs through Dedric almost as much as it does whoever plays point guard. He is the team's best passer, and he has great handles for a 6'9" hybrid pf-sf with a wing span of 7'4". The one knock on him was he lacked strength, but he's had over a year under the careful leadership of Hudy, and with Doke/Silvio/Mac down low, he most likely won't be matched up against a center, like he was at Memphis. He is an elite rebounder, with a nose for the ball. He blocked more shots than Doke and out rebounded him in his sophomore year. He also averaged almost as many steals as Devonte in his soph year(1.4-1.3), and almost as many assists(3.7-3.3). Lawson averaged 19.9 ppg and 9.9 rebounds his sophomore year, which led him to being named AAC POY. If he has improved his 3 point shot, then he becomes a poor man's version of Kevin Durant...not as good a shooter, of course....but better defensively...better handles...better passer...maybe even a better rebounder.
I know that doesn't answer the point guard question. Perhaps this does:
"I would say he's probably as complete a guard as we've ever had," Self said. "You know, he can shoot, he can pass, he can dribble, he can score at all three levels. He is a really good player right now, but what I think impressed me as much as anything is that he's bright, and as good as he is, he's competitive enough that I think he could really be special."
Quentin Grimes is the best guard that Bill has ever signed. Quentin averaged 40% from 3 his last two years in high school. Playing along side Dedric allows our guards to bring up the ball, pass it to Dedric, and run to the open spot. Can you imagine what Devonte could've done last year with help like that? That will also help Charlie and Vick from 3. A lot of people are discounting Charlie because of the Italy trip, but the fact remains he shot better better from 3 (35%) in his freshman year than Frank did his freshman year. Maybe Charlie met a girl in Italy...maybe Charlie mailed it in over there... the fact remains he was the star of the off-season scrimmages. Vick is simply dead eye from 3, and as long as he is focused, can be the real wildcard that stirs the drink. And I haven't even mentioned the synergy that exists between Dedric and his brother. KJ is 6'7" with a 7 FOOT WINGSPAN, with good handles, great rebounding skills, and a pretty good trey baller (.328 his freshman year). KJ has had a year under Hudy, with a year to hone his skills, and will be better than his freshman year, when he was named "Rookie of the year" in the AAC, after averaging 12.3 ppg and 8.1 rpg. Dotson might not shoot the 3, but he can darn sure drive the ball to the rim, and he can definitely play lock down defense. And Garrett is going to just keep getting better and better and better.
Bill pioneered "badball". He adopted ( out of necessity ) 4 out "trey ball". Now the genius kicks in, as he runs with as many as 3/4 floor generals at the same time, all playing around Doke/Silvio...or he goes 5 out...YES...5 out with a lineup of Charlie/Dotson, Grimes, Vick, KJ, and Dedric. All can drive the ball...all can shoot from 3. If he wants to play an all defensive 5 out team , he could run with a Grimes/Garrett/Vick/KJ/Dedric. If wants to hammer the ball down their throat, he could pull Dedric out beyond the perimeter, throw the hi-lo to Doke, and get Doke in 1 on 1 isolations all day long. If Doke doesn't shoot free throws well again( which I highly doubt that Doke won't be significantly better), then we have Silvio, who is very good at shooting free throws. If the other team is going 4 out, we can match up. If the other team plays big, Daddy can play big. We have never had this type of depth...never. As deep as we were in 2007, and then in 2008, I'm not sure those teams could field two separate lineups that would both be ranked. I think some of the "old rules", such as you can't win the tournament w/o an experienced pg are going to be set aside the same way that people used to say that freshmen couldn't thrive under Self, and that Bill would never go to a 3 point oriented offense. This is yet another chapter that will be deemed as another genius performance from a Hall of Fame coach. Keep an open mind- I think Bill is going to surprise you.
This guy?
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@BShark Do you have a video?
He would've had Dotson and Charlie ahead of him. Good kid, but it could take years for him to make an impact with us. Let's get somebody with some height who can drill it from 3 with good handles.
Come back, rooster...
@Crimsonorblue22 I'm real excited he is our AD. I can't wait to see what he can do for the football team.
@approxinfinity I don't think the looming stock market crash has anything to do with Trump, impeachment, or anything that we see on tv. I think Trump's job in this Kabuki Theatre is to put out the idea that the stock market could crash, to add that thought to the collective thought process. Whatever they end up blaming the crash on, you can be assured that it was a deliberate act meant to inflict enough pain across the world that people will look for alternatives other than the nation state. So, what really caused Mubarek to lose power in Egypt? Did it have anything to do with the fact there was an "unseen hand" that manipulated the financial markets that created huge financial turmoil for the citizens of Egypt that led them to take to the streets? Is that same "unseen" hand manipulating the financial markets now in Turkey, Argentina, Nicaragua, and Brazil in order to create as much turmoil as possible? We are watching an unseen and unreported world wide war on nation states. The goal is to disrupt every nation on earth, and they have practically unlimited finances, unlimited resources, and unlimited power.
@BShark Hilarious.
Kabuki Theatre. Impeach Trump - intentionally crash the stock market. The whole world's economy goes tits up. The nation state concept is crashed, which harkens to the beacon call of the "workers of the world, unite" in the new one world government. This has all been planned for years. While Lefty and Righty duke it out, both sides are completely ignorant of the way they are being manipulated by the same source that controls both parties.